Issue #18427: str.replace could crash the interpreter with huge strings.
This fixes two places where 'int' was used to represent
the size of strings, instead of 'Py_ssize_t'.
(The issue is not present in the corresponding code in the 3.x branches)
Fixes #18427
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index c3689e9..804e8c2 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@
Library
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+- Issue #18427: str.replace could crash the interpreter with huge strings.
+
- Issue #18347: ElementTree's html serializer now preserves the case of
closing tags.
@@ -88,7 +90,7 @@
- Issue #7136: In the Idle File menu, "New Window" is renamed "New File".
Patch by Tal Einat, Roget Serwy, and Todd Rovito.
-
+
- Issue #8515: Set __file__ when run file in IDLE.
Initial patch by Bruce Frederiksen.